The Oklahoma Representative. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 27, 1897 Page: 2 of 8
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THE REPRESENTATIVE
rnl.ll.lKMl Evorr Tliiir <t«r «r
• \ IN('KM' A JlOimiKU K.
fa runiK,
OKLAHOMA
Indecision is quicksand. Ilctrrmina-
tion to do right is rock.
When you arc in trouble, people who
rail to sympathize are reatiy uUif the
particulars.
Times are specially hard in Indiana
when a saloonkeeper commits suicide
because of lack of business.
In the matter of whiskers, it s a sort
it neck and neck race between our
next minister to Turkey and Oom Paul
Kruger.
The people of Ixindon are taking
panes to see the queen s jubilee, and lu
some instances they have bought whole
windows.
If people could see their obituaries
while they are still living. It would en-
courage them so much that they might
live longer.
"Would a university founded to Im-
part the humane precept that we
should live and let live rfC 'ive any en-
dowment from Rockefellers?
A Kansas minister has distinguished
himself by presenting a bill of $5 for
"praying at the Inauguration of Gov.
Leedy." If he had charged $25 his
fame would have been still greater.
It has been telegraphed all over the
country that Russell Sage of New York
has a new spring suit, and that some-
one found a tag on It marked with fig-
ures that looked like $<1.75. Sage Is the
millionaire who recently took a mort-
gage on a relative's home to secure a
loan of $200. The purchase of a cheap
suit is posBlbly an event in such a
man's life that merits extended notice.
Monument
~ \r*rr* HK man's nam
2' ,l-> was Matt, and 1
it
suited biitt. Oreat
the conjuring
^ power of names.
After knowing dozens of
men whose characters fiat
Oc1
C ■
men «
I IV contradict the idea we
associate with the names
In a paper read a few days ago be
'ore the London Chamber of Com-
merce by Mr. Stanley Mackin on "Food
Supply in Time of War," much stress
was laid on the fact that England's de-
pendence on supplies of wheat from
Europe, and especially from Russia
and Roumanla, had largely increased
lately. It said that "if by any means
our Imports were stopped, our home
wheat could not sustain us for more
than about six weeks at the most. It
must be remembered that probably
one of the first acts of our enemies
would be to declare coal and wheat
contraband of war."
awn-'"11- ,.
given them by undlucern
ing sponsors in baptism
Ve still cling to those Ideas
ind to u„ Tom is a waver-
ing weak-kneed individual. Joe
reckless pranksome
aneireHts a ni* • • 1
fellow whose heart Is In the right
place and his tongue hung loose at both
ends and John suggests the picture of
a steady, solid, sober personage who
seems a bit of a prig until we think of
i Henry who creates about him an ul -
Uolutely intolerable atmosphere of
| moral and spiritual snobbishness.
I He whose name of Matt lilted him
• better than the shabby, shoddy gar-
| ments which hung about him in dispir-
ited folds was short and square set and
; stooping.
i Yet he was not so old as age goes—
' Vet he was not so old as age goes -
I anly 35, and as he told the man who
| Decupled the same bench, he had only
' been on the road for ten years,
"I've been trampin' it for nigh on to
[Ifteen " said his companion, a man ol
ibout 'his own age. but whose dress
and person presented an appearance of
sven more acute forlornity. Surely, no
two more unsightly human blots ever
disfigured a landscape than these, who
lounged untidily on the benches "I
Washington square, blind to the blue
and gold brightness of the early morn-
ing of one of the first Memorial Days
this city ever celebrated. Now and
then smart blue coated soldiers, with
pinks in their button holes, either sing-
ly or in groups of two or three, stepped
rapidly through the square, too intent
on reaching the rendezvous where they
were to assemble for Ihe grand parade
to waste a glance on the two vagabonds
who had met,fraternized and exi hanged
experiences and confidences within the
space of the last half hour.
got folks here In riillixletphts. an' It's
half likely I may look HB up." A"
unaccountable trembling had come in
to Barlow's voice as he ac:«eieU an 1
Into his feet as h shuffled off wllh an
air remotely imitating energy, and lr.-
I(t<, his fingers'as lie ran them down la
to his coat pocket and drew out a dtng>
poeketbook, besides as fiat as a pressed
autumn leaf. He took out an equally
dingy piece, of newspaper and studied
Ihe words printed on it as thoughtfullv
as though he had not known them by
heart for a month or more.
"If John Harlow, of Northumberland
county, Pa., sometime a resident of
Philadelphia, will communicate with
the undersigned he will hear something
to his advantage. The name and ad-
dress of Ihe American representative
of a well known English law firm fol-
lowed.
"It means some o' them English ie-
latlous o' course," mused Matt Barlow
its he, had used a dozen times before.
"I uster hear Grandfather Barlow talk
of money I hat had oughter come to us
from the other side by rights, but never
expected nothln' to cone of it. Won-
('or if Lucy seen it'.' Wonder if and
then the thoughts which gathc ?d
round that name became of a character
not to be uttered aloud to a drink-
sodden. frowsy tramp, even if he hap-
pened to be oneself. As he waited on
the corner for the crawling horse-cai
which amply met Philadelphia s de-
mand for rapid transit in 1874, he did
mutter a few words audibly:
"She'll act queer at first- if she ain t
married again—yes, there ain't no
doubt but she'll act queer. But 1 kin
make her understand that at first It
was as much as my life was worth to
turn up anywheres, and then, when the
war was over, 'twas too late; she
wouldn't have had me, Lucy wouldn't!
But now that I kin bring something lo
her an' the children, as well as myself,
by com in' back, it ain't so much of a
prodigal son business.
"A deserter! A deserter!"
The vagabond woke from an uneasy
dream In which all the people. In th"
car seemed pointing scornful lingers at
him and hissing that title of reproach
The exploits of the lale H. H. Holmes
and the revelations of his many crimes
wero recalled in a Chicago court the
other day when the trial of the suit of
Mrs. Ella C. Quinlan against Chief of
Police Badenoch and Inspector I' itz-
patrlck was begun before Judge t bet-
lain Mrs. Quinlan sued the officials
named to recover $20,000 for alleged
false arrest and imprisonment. She
was detained in police headquarters for
three weeks in the summer of 18! f> un-
der the suspicion that she knew all
about many of the alleged crimes of
Holmes at Holmes' notorious "castle."
A human skeleton found iu one of the
rooms of the "castle and two ti links
belonging to Minnie Williams, one of
Holmes' victims, were exhibited.
The annual report of the Bureau of
Statistics of the State Department es-
tablished the significant fact that the
foreign trade of the United States last ,
year showed a steady increase in the
export of manufactured goods, the per-
centage of such exports rising from
24.93 per cent in 1885 to 25.71 per cent
last year. Meanwhile, the percentage
of agricultural exports declined slight-
ly, from 67.58 to 87.38. The report finds
additional confirmation of the relative-
ly rapid advance of the foreign trade of
tile I'nlted States In some figures pre-
sented to parliament by Ihe Ilrltish
board of trade, showing that while
t;reat Britain still retains her lead over
other countries In exports of manufac-
tures, the United States is advancing
at a more rapid pace, and that that ad-
vance was larger in amount and much
larger in proportion than the advance
made by Germany.
The peculiar courage possessed by
arctic explorers Is well demonstrated
by the plans being arranged now by j
l.leut. Peary for his next expedition to
the frozen north. He proposes to tako
no more than two white companions
and proceed to a certain point on the
western coast of Greenland which has
been used before as the base of explo-
ration. Thence he will take a half
dozen married couples and push on
northward to the farthest point where
a colony could live, making the latter
place the final base of operations,
feary thinks he can set within ,tw>
'miles of the pole in this way and by
waiting for a favorable opportunity ,
for setting out finally reach It by means
of dog sledges. The extraordinary fea
ture of his program is his expec tation
that he may be obliged to wait ns long
as five years before the conditions will
be right for the last stage of the expedi-
tion.
According to a calculation worked
out by the Revue Scientilique of Paris,
the proportion of paying load to total
displacement of a steamship In 1S40
was only 10 per cent that Is, the hull,
engines and fuel carried formed 90 per
-ent of the weight of the vessel. In
1S50 the paying load had risen tj> 26
per cent; in 1* >, to 3 : per cent In
"i^70. to 50 per cent. At the present
time the Atlantic steamers show an
average of 55 per cent paying weight.
The advance sln< 170 ha^ been com-
paratively slow, chiefly because much
higher speeds are no* reoulfed
"Fifteen years at trampin is as good
as a hundred." continued the first
speaker, meditatively. "Seems as if a
man git" it inter ills bones by then,
an' it wouldn't be any good fer Ills own
self to want ter stop it, let alone other
folks. Now, I'd been on the road fer
live years when this war business broke
out. Directly it came l went to Cana-
dy. 1 wasn't goln' ter take no chances.
1 didn't see notliln' of it, nor care noth-
ln' fer It. an' wen It was over I come
back and bummed about the country
ever sence. without findin' things much
changed anyways from what they was
before. That's why I don't lake no in-
terest in this here racket over Decora-
lion Day."
At that moment, the thrilling music
of the fife and drum, as a small <1 •-
tachment of soldiers wended tfieir way
down Walnut street, flashing the Stars
and Stripes in the eyes of I lie specta-
tors who Instantly collected at doors
and windows, sounded in vivid contrast
to his speech, and in Matt Barlow's
dull face there flickered a faint sparkle
of surprise, "i don't feel that way.
he said, hesitatingly; "I'm kinder glad
there's braver men than you an'
in his ear. He started as the
ikn.:
mi
blue-
"DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY."
uniformed conductor laid a hand on
his shoulder, to say sternly: "Wake up,
you, or I'll put you off the car; You
disturb everybody with your muttcr-
ings."
It bail been a good man* years since
Matt Barlow had allowed himself to re-
call exactly why It was that he wai
wandering homeless about the country
indifferent to the fact that his family
must mourn hint as dead, or why it was
that he half hoped that they did so
mourn him. But to-day it was all wak-
ing, waking within him under the influ-
ence of Ihe day, together with the new
desire lie had vaguely formed to take u
fresh start in life. When, a half hour
later, he stood In the densely packed
crowd In the cemetery and waited for
the ceremonies of Decoration day to be-
gin, he strained his eye to see the in-
and swung him lo His shoulder. The
boy smiled friendly wise lnlo th • rough
face and remarked with a wavwlnj;
sweep of his forefinger:
"That's my father's moBiiment. '
"Your father's, hey?"
"Yes. He was the bravest man in
the th Pennsylvania. My mo:her
tells us so often. He died for his coun-
try." .
"Who was your father?" Struck
again by that dim resemblance to
someone he had known, lie asked the
question, half shrinking from the re
ply. yet never dreaming what it would
be.
"Matthew Barlow, an' my names
Matthew Barlow, but hers- ' indicat-
ing Ihe girl—"ain't. She's Dora Ma-
tilda, after her aunt."
Well, and wherein lay Ihe horror of j
it? Had he not wished and intended ,
to hunt up his family and be reunited j
to the children who had been babies |
when he saw them last? And here he j
had stumbled across them without Ihe j
lea«t trouble. Across them and j
across his own monument!
"Where's your mother?" he asked in
a whisper, not daring to look behind j
him.
"Out working. She cleans offices,
mother does, an' she couldn't afford to
take to-day off, 'cause it's desperate
hard to get along anyhow, she says,
and—"
"Matty!" In the girl's tone of gen-
tle rebuke there was a familiar cadence
he wondered at himself for not no-
ticing before. Rousing himself, he
said to her tentatively:
"How do you know your father's
dead? Maybe he'll come back some
day with a lot of money and make you
all rich."
Dora Matilda shook her head. "He'd
have come back to us before this," she
said confidently. "He was reported
missing after the battle of Bull Run
and mother says she's sure he's dead.
She says, too, that she'd rather he d
left us what he did an example of
being brave and willing to die for the
Union- than hundreds of gold and sil-
ver dollars."
"Your mother ain't married again,
then ?"
Surely it was Lucy's own self in the
haughty flinging back of the head and
the answer which rung proudly out.
"Certainly not!"
The deserter suddenly set the boy
down. Something bore too heavily on
his shoulders. It was that great shaft
of stone, his monument. The band
kept on pretending to play patriotic
songs, but really heating the air with
the refrain, "Honor gone, all's gone!"
Had he dreamed of something he was
to bring t° these children, by answer-
ing the advertisement which was to
lead liim, perhaps, to unlimited wealth
and comfort? What wealth, what com-
fort could replace to them or to him
the heroic image which his return
would blot out from their young mind?
The ten years of poverty which had
been bitter to him had been sweet to
them with a sweetness he c ould never
know again. Let them work and toil
on, and even if they tasted the bitter-
ness of starvation or death, it would
be better than anything he could give
them, ho, as the martial music kept
reminding him. had better never have
been born!
Farmer's Headquarters!
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FARM IMPLEMENTS, BU6B1ES, CARRIAGES, WAGONS,
I am handling especially the Cassady Sulky Plows
• Morrison Plows and Cultivators, Cotton Planters.
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there s oniver iii«?u «««« •
anmpthlnic hail unttcii into hlu voice seriptlon on the huge obelisk, halt bur
BOIueimiih , ,, , , i„ n.„..,i I «•!,«,.1. Hi
and made It almost Inaudible 'to light
for tlu- country we're bummin' round
in an' I'm Koin' out to the cemeteries
to do honor to the soldiers, (lead nn'
Hvln', who did It It there's any honor
t.. anybody in a feller like me bcin'
round anywheres. You sec. it's differ-
ent with me; 1 us«:d to be in—in ther
army myself." He hurried out the
words half in fear, half bravado, us
though Hinging a challenge, and thon.
i -flS-. , r A-
' WAS IN THE ARMY MYSEI.F," j
with a sharp indrawing of his breath, j
narrowly watched his companion as!
though dreading their effect.
icd In floral tokens, around which tlu-
guard of honor stood, but th< sun was
in his eyes. Of course it was the
sun.
"What soldiers is that monument
raised to, sissy?" he asked, huskily, of
a tall girl of 12 or 13. who stood lie-
side him, holding a smaller boy by the
hand.
" To the imperishable memory of tlio
heroes of the - th Pennsylvania Volun-
teers, who fell in defense of their coun-
try, this shaft Is erected,'" read the
girl in a clear voice. "Them's the sur-
vivors'." she added in kindly explica-
tion, as the sound of the band and the
ilutter of the red, white and blue ban-
ner was dimly discerned in the dis-
tance, "coming to lay flowers on it and
make speeches."
Matt llarlow shook so that he was
forced to steady himself by grnspuig
the shoulder of the small boy. who
gazed up at hlni with a wondering
face which struck some faint chord of
recognition within him. "They won't
know me," he muttered to himself In
! quavering accents. "Lucy herself, nor
| my own mother wouldn't know me a#
1 look now. An'."anyhon. they could-
' n't do nothln' to me.
"Sister works too." the boy prattled
on, "In a factory, and she savos money
through the year to buy flowers for j
Decoration Day. Then when all the
folks have gone away we put them oa
fiithcr's monument."
Matt Barlow reached out his hands
'owurd the hunch of limp roses and
; lading mignonette which the girl held,
! then as suddenly withdrew it. "Keep
I em." he saiil gruffly, almost violently. |
"I thought I wanted one, but I don t.
' That evening, as the stars and the
gas lamps began to twinkle in unequal :
: rivalry over Washington square, the
! man v. ho had been sleeping heavily on
, line of its benches opened his eyes in
I response to a slight shake. Instlnc-
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What is the use of straying all over Guthrie for
A Heal First-Class Short Order Meal
When the Best in the city is always found at
ANDY ♦ FRINK'S * WESTAUUANT ?
No. in South Second Street.
JUST GET A CUP Or UUR COFFEE REMINDS YOU OF MOTHER.
The Big Collar and Saddlery House,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Saddlery and |~iarness
Of Every Description.
\ s*. ni'sr.. - guthrik, oklahoma.
The tune played was, (o liim, no
• Marching Through Georgia," but
"Honor gone, all's gone;
Hetter never have been born."
over and over. The tattered battle flags
carried with reverent hands above the
heads of the marching ranks, almost as
the host Is carried In Old World relig-
ious processions, made his heart first
burn within him, then sicken at the
thought that his place should not have
been here among those who watched it
from afar off.
"Either with them—or tlirm!" he
iy, lirst glancing at the
iddreES of a burer of charity in this | ^ battle-scarred soldiers, then
city where they're anxious to put able- '• Bhaf, whu.h a
honied fellers like you on farms in the •'< wr|t<, on {be ,kipK its witnes<
Uws. he might PS wel save. ln* „f fa„, „ lnpnlbcr„ o(
his breath to cool his puddIn . I ve go °8 Pennsylvania. Volunteers
ther card, but ther "urer■!! never git ( ^ ^ Ul0llgllts
me. Goln a rc.u > . <■ . < . mom<,nt was absolutely neces-
rd T«SE n ."whT?: £ ,'f sary. He picked up -he lO.vcar-old
I cimil P ' \ loy raying to his sister. Hub here
I've j can't down on the ground."
But his hearer was a man without
curiosity. "Thasso? he asked, indif-
ferently, and returned, as though he
had no Interruption to the subject of
his former monologue: '^es. It's as
1 say, bo throwln' aliout the country
for a few year* an' you ain't good fer
nothln' else an' you don't ask fer noth-
in' else. Man looked like a minister
come along this here square just yes-
t'dy n Jawed me 'bout 'liracln' up n'
belli' some use in ther communerty . n"
all that. 'Here.' he says. I'll give you i fl(.rr
the address of a burer of charity In this
"I AM DEAD."
! lively he felt In his pocket for his pipe
j while he inquired laconically:
, "Hack?"
■y, said Barlow, closing his lips
tightly. Hut as has been said the oth-
, r was a man without curiosity, and he
asked no other question than:
Haven't got a bit of paper I could
light my pipe with, have you '
"Yes I have." A crumpled news-
naptr illp was taken from his pocket-
book. twisted up and tossed to Ihe man
on the bench, and then Matt asked
"Say, if you ain't going lo use that
card could I have it*1"
What card'.' Oh. the charity burer
thing! Ye ain't goin' out west on a
farm, are you? Might as well be dead
M ttxWl', an' burled as on a farm."
• 1 am <lead an' buried." said Matt
Barlow, slowly. "An got a monument
luised over ma."
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M Russia, which weighs 4.12.-
IH.O pounds. That In the city hall. Ne
York, weighs tt.m * # •
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